Imagine stuffing every emotion you own into a tiny glowing rectangle. In “Amour, Haine & Danger,” Belgian pop sensation Angèle zooms in on our love-hate affair with the smartphone, that “objet” we clutch from sunrise to bedtime. She sings about doom-scrolling, FOMO, and the rush of validation that quickly flips into stress, envy, or self-doubt. One moment the device feeds us friendship and music; the next it bombards us with hate, anxiety, and the nagging sense that everyone else is living better.
Angèle’s playful beat hides a gentle warning: we have handed a pocket-sized gadget the power to schedule our dates, shape our opinions, and even decide whether our day feels good or bad. By repeating “tout ça dans un objet,” she reminds us how absurd it is that so much of our emotional landscape fits inside a phone. The song becomes an invitation to hit airplane mode, look up, and reclaim real-world moments before love, hate, and danger keep vibrating in our hands all night.
Angèle is a Belgian singer, songwriter, and pianist, born Angèle Van Laeken in Brussels in 1995. She comes from a musical family: her father is the singer Marka and her brother is the rapper Roméo Elvis. Encouraged to play piano from an early age, she first won attention with her covers and playful videos on Instagram before releasing her debut single in 2017.
Her first album, Brol (2018), was a huge success across the French-speaking world and turned her into one of Europe's biggest pop stars, and she later topped the charts with Fever, a duet with Dua Lipa. Libre comes from her second album, Nonante-Cinq (2021), and captures her recurring themes of freedom, independence, and shrugging off other people's expectations.